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Singer is no ivory tower polemicist. He
has worked in the thick of conflict in his
work with DOD, both on the battlefield
and in the Pentagon, participating in war
games and talking with scientists, Soldiers,
generals, even Iraqi insurgents.
In 2009, recognizing that the U.S . mili-
tary had no guarantee of maintaining the
technological edge it had enjoyed in global
warfare for the past few decades, DOD
contracted with Noetic Group, an inter-
national strategic consulting firm, to assess
the implications of emerging technologies
on future warfare. The method was Proj-
ect NeXTech, led by the Rapid Reaction
Technology Office within the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and in which Singer
played a central role.
Through research on the state of emerg-
ing technologies with leading scientists,
engineers, academics, military lead-
ers, policymakers, investors, journalists
and futurists, NeXTech set out to define
“what are the technologies that today’s
naysayers derisively describe as ‘science
experiments’ that will actually be key
to shaping the battlefield of tomorrow?”
according to a September 2013 report by
the Center for a New American Security.
“The goal that guided them was to iden-
tify what technology right now is akin
to where the computer was in 1980 or
the Predator [aerial drone] was during
the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review—
real but not yet noticed as transforming
the world.”
USE IT WISELY
Singer believes the acquisition system will need to be hyper- aware of advantage - altering
technologies as they arrive —the Army will have to move from thinking “we’re the only ones
with this technology” to “we use this technology the best.” (Image by U.S. Army Acquisition
Support Center/PlargueDoctor/iStock/Getty Images)
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